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A Versatile Velocity Map Ion-Electron Covariance Imaging Spectrometer for High-Intensity XUV Experiments

Atomic Physics 2019-01-11 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

We report on the design and performance of a velocity map imaging (VMI) spectrometer optimized for experiments using high-intensity extreme ultraviolet (XUV) sources such as laser-driven high-order harmonic generation (HHG) sources and free-electron lasers (FELs). Typically exhibiting low repetition rates and high single-shot count rates, such~experiments do not easily lend themselves to coincident detection of photo-electrons and -ions. In order to obtain molecular frame or reaction channel-specific information, one has to rely on other correlation techniques, such as covariant detection schemes. Our device allows for combining different photo-electron and -ion detection modes for covariance analysis. We present the expected performance in the different detection modes and present the first results using an intense high-order harmonic generation (HHG) source.

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@article{arxiv.1901.03077,
  title  = {A Versatile Velocity Map Ion-Electron Covariance Imaging Spectrometer for High-Intensity XUV Experiments},
  author = {Linnea Rading and Jan Lahl and Sylvain Maclot and Filippo Campi and Hélène Coudert-Alteirac and Bart Oostenrijk and Jasper Peschel and Piotr Rudawski and Hampus Wikmark and Mathieu Gisselbrecht and Per Johnsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03077},
  year   = {2019}
}

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